Glad to say had the first drive of the GTS today with the new engine fitted.

No major problems other than the usual first drive tuning stuff to sort.

Probably covered around 50 miles today need to give everything a good checking over tomorrow morning. As the forecast is to chuck it down with rain it gives me chance to sort the niggles. One of which being the indicators being a little confusing at the moment

Hard to tell what the performance is like at the moment as its running quite a way out (way too rich under boost). I know it will screech the tyres with only a little throttle off the line though, which is more than the pinto ever would.

Running the engine in at the moment too, kept the revs under 4000rpm. But I now know that I am getting around 4.5psi of boost at 4000rpm. Which would indicate max boost of around 8 or 9psi at the redline. So I will be looking at fitting a smaller pulley at some point in the future. Though this should be an easy upgrade as the boost curve should remain constant so it should just be a case of modding the top of the map to take into account of the extra boost.

I need to do some work on the spark map too. I dont have any knock at any revs (yet) but I am cruising at a much higher vac than I was hoping for (cruises at around 80-95kpa absolute) which may cause problems advancing the ignition a lot at this point to get a really efficient cruise. Time will tell though and its something that will develop in the coming weeks and months.

The front springs seem a little too soft, grounded the sump a couple of times on the back roads today. Which is concerning as I dont have that little ground clearance. So I may change them back to the springs I had fitted with the pinto.

Last job of today was wrapping the exhaust and baking it on. Also took the opportunity to dial in the acceleration enrichment a little which should show next time I go out for a drive.

David

I understood the exhaust wrapping bit Glad things are improving!

Cheers

Rich

Excellent News! What was all this fuss about Stoneleigh, thats ages away!!!

top job mate , been reading on here about your install and the problems its been giving you ,glad to hear your finally getting some reward for all your hard work.keep at it .m.

Well done

How much extra weight does the supercharger install add do you think then?

Fantastic, your next ride out will be a white Knuckle ride!!

Excellent mate. Bring it to diss on sunday Thats probably going to be my first trip out in mine this year as long as i can get tax this week.

Will probs be at diss next weekend if the weather is good and I dont break anything in the mean time!

Not sure on the extra weight of the supercharger. Not much though, maybe 25kgs.

Well done David, wish i understood the MS as well as you!

Look forward to seeing it Dave.

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Originally posted by flak monkey
Will probs be at diss next weekend if the weather is good and I dont break anything in the mean time!

Not sure on the extra weight of the supercharger. Not much though, maybe 25kgs.

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Well done!

Look forward to seeing you at Diss next week! I've just finished the Puma 1.7 engine upgrade for the Mojo so I'll be there too as long as the weather isn't too shocking...

Ed.

Nice work flak!!

I nearly fell out the garage when i heard you coming up the road! Couldnt believe it was out!!

Lol i wondered why you had some head phones on! I thought you were listening to radio 2!

Roll on test drive time

nice one daivid.

are you going to the cars on green event?

stuart

Had another few drives of the car today. All going relatively well other than a few minor tuning problems.

Going to give the car a good going over tomorrow afternoon and make sure nothing is falling off.

Looks like its doing around 25mpg in its poorly tuned state at the moment. Had a few problems with the set up so far, but I seem to have gone part way to solving them. Seems to be difficult to tune the bit between coming off cruise to going on boost. Think I have my head round it now...